Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/03/20

[adrien]

Previous status: Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2025/03/13

[adrien]

Distro

• openssl: uploaded openssl 3.4.1-1ubuntu2 with the latest patches from git and it’ll be used for the current test rebuild (thanks @ginggs for the hint!)
• gnutls28:
  • uploaded gnutls28 3.8.9.-2ubuntu3:
  • triaged/analyzed gnutls28 bugs:
    • Bug #1373422 “gnutls26 does not accept out of order certificate ...” : Bugs : gnutls26 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1872778 “update-crypto-policies not affecting Gnome Online ...” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1851427 “Consider updating GNUTLS for TLSv1.3 and unified c...” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1937349 “won't build from source” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnutls28/+bug/2076340
    • Bug #1623666 “iOS device contents not displayed in Ubuntu” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1635303 “GnuTLS bug in https method from apt-1.0.1ubuntu2.1...” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1649270 “Crash in gnutls_x509_privkey_import_pkcs8()” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1662500 “When I turn on mi PC, it appears this issue: packa...” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1697980 “package libgnutls-openssl27:amd64 3.4.10-4ubuntu1....” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1698575 “package libgnutls30:amd64 3.4.10-4ubuntu1.3 failed...” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1698787 “package libgnutls-openssl27:amd64 3.4.10-4ubuntu1....” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1701412 “package libgnutls30:i386 3.4.10-4ubuntu1.3 failed ...” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1702114 “package libgnutls30:i386 3.4.10-4ubuntu1.3 failed ...” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1877731 ""Evolution will not display emails from Yahoo or A... : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu
    • Bug #1917954 “vagrant reports undefined symbol __gmpz_limbs_writ...” : Bugs : gnutls28 package : Ubuntu

Misc

• Found that git-ubuntu prepare-upload doesn’t support git worktrees which I use extensively:
  • Bug #2043815 “git-ubuntu support for worktrees” : Bugs : git-ubuntu
  • I have a fix for the first issue and a work-around for the second one, still need to prepare them
  • made a PR for pygit2 to warn about an API misuse which resulted in that first issue: doc: warn against using init_repository() to open a repository. by adrien-n · Pull Request #1356 · libgit2/pygit2 · GitHub
  • still need to make the same one for libgit2 itself
• Gave some feedback to Tim for Merge into ubuntu/devel : remmina-perms-fix : lp:~andersson123/ubuntu/+source/apparmor : Git : Code : apparmor package : Ubuntu but couldn’t sponsor due to the aforementioned issue
• Learning some rust, especially by expanding use in crypto-config

[xypron]

keepalived snap

• Fix a load library issue.

Greenhouse

• Review application

[enr0n]

• Investigating systemd bugs for plucky:
  • Bug #2092438 “System fails to restart after install” : Bugs : subiquity package : Ubuntu
  • Bug #2102236 “plucky/s390x does not come up after kernel update ...” : Bugs : Ubuntu on IBM z Systems
• Uploaded mkosi autopkgtest fix to unblock systemd migration

[levihackerman-102]

Go

• Working on portainer GUI snap for craft-tools Go plugin testing
• golang-1.24 backports for oracular, noble, jammy and focal

Distro

• procps merged (Thanks to @enr0n for reviews)
• console-setup merge postponed to next cycle because it affects too many images (Thanks to @ginggs for reviews)
• Raised an MP for #2100266 Merge into merge-1.84 : lp-2100266 : lp:~canonical-foundations/ubuntu/+source/rustc : Git : Code : rustc package : Ubuntu
• Waiting for decision on sphinx demotion to universe / change in dependency priority of node-mathjax full to proceed with sphinx proposed-migration

Misc

• Working on altering table structure for some SQL queries in the buildlog analyzer

[mateus-morais]

.NET

• Finished writing the .NET snapcraft plugin and a draft PR has been submitted (feat: new .NET plugin (v2) by mateusrodrigues · Pull Request #1047 · canonical/craft-parts · GitHub).
  • Once the FO205 (.NET snapcraft plugin) spec is fully approved, I’ll convert the PR to ready for review.
  • In the meantime, I fixed some linter issues that showed up during CI build and am working on fixing spell-checking false-positives.

Misc

• Reviewed the 25.10 roadmap with @dviererbe.
• Finished my 360 submission.

[waveform]

Plucky

• Switched the Pi desktop pre-installed images to gnome-initial-setup
  • Unfortunately the images still aren’t building due to a space issue
  • Space issue may well be due to tmpfs change
  • Prepping work-around for livecd-rootfs to call ubuntu-image with /var/tmp directory
• Working on slimming down the Pi desktop images by removing libreoffice et al
• Landed bump for rpi-eeprom to current upstream version (LP: #2094834)

Noble

• IRC support request regarding the DSI display
  • Turns out our firmware is too old to support it on Noble (LP: #2102019)
  • Current fix is to update firmware with RaspiOS; once current rpi-eeprom SRU lands, Ubuntu should be okay for this
  • … then a similar support request turned up on Matrix
  • … did everyone pick this week to buy a DSI touchscreen?

General

• Patch pilot on Monday
• Fixed a bug in the .. ubuntu-images extension
• Finally got a build of rpi-imager 1.9.3
  • Had to drop ppc64el (gnome content snap no longer supported in core24)
  • Tried riscv64 but build wouldn’t start…
  • But it wouldn’t matter anyway as gnome content snap not supported there either
• Debugging Ubuntu Core kernel params
• Pi meetings

[dviererbe]

.NET

• Investigated how-to deb package .NET applications/libraries
• 25.10 roadmap planning
• packaging .NET 10 previews
• documentation for Ubuntu for Developer Docs

Misc

• experimenting with/learning about OmniSharp language server library

[zhsj]

Go

• Working on backporting the latest golang-1.23 micro release to Oracular/Noble/Jammy/Focal.
• Developing devpack-for-go snap with more tools and editors support.

[bdrung]

Distro

• tzdata 2025a:
  • Prepares ESM update for trusty which is still in legacy support mode
  • exchange-calendars 4.5.5-2ubuntu0.1 for oracular
  • backport upstream tzdata 2025a fix to postgresql-12 in focal
• devicexlib: sync 0.8.5-2 that fixes the FTBFS (Bug #2075165 “devicexlib fails to build on armel/armhf/hppa/m68k... : Bugs : devicexlib package : Ubuntu and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devicexlib/+bug/2075173)
• rdma-core: Uploaded 56.0-3 that fixes the autopkgtest failure of ibsim

Apport

• pylint: Fix useless suppression
• crashdb: Import sqlite3 without giving it a different name
• test: add type hints to has_click_event_connected
• Remove unused import apport.fileutils
• logging: add type hints
• apport: defer imports for unicode_gettext
• test: remove unused variables
• use apport.logging directly
• Went down a rabbit hole to writing test cases for the most occurring Apport bug Bug #2080499 “/usr/share/apport/apport:ProcessLookupError:/usr/s...” : Bugs : apport package : Ubuntu - I am still in the burrow.

other

• DMB meeting: congratulation to @mkukri for becoming core-dev!

[r41k0u]

• Last week’s outcome of the KGDB rabbit hole: KGDB on Raspberry Pi 5 running Ubuntu using the Raspberry Pi Debug Probe · GitHub
• Investigated https://bugs.launchpad.net/snap-store-desktop/+bug/2076919: The cause is a hardcoded pixelformat used by flutter for their renderer’s GLES backend. But I am still digging because I don’t understand why D0 stepping fixes this (probably something related to the hardware’s preferred pixelformat).
• Investigating FTBFS of ubuntu desktop-preinstalled image for raspi
• Promotion application

[mkukri]

• Passed DMB on Monday
• Sponsored CVM 0.97-3.1ubuntu1 (FTBFS fix)
• GRUB2 security update uploaded to plucky, already migrated
• Oracular, noble, jammy, focal have been uploaded to unapproved
• Debugged edk2 x initramfs-tools regression, fix in plucky-proposed now
• Got secboot PR #367 ready for merging

[pushkarnk]

Shorter-than-usual week. PTO on Friday.

Java/OpenJDK

• TCK certification prep for chiseled JDK 17/21 ROCKS
• Manual TCK GUI tests

GraalVM snap

• Published updated versions in v21 and latest tracks.

Misc

• Ramping up on MIR work
• Code reviews for vpa1977

[uralt]

auto-upgrade-testing

• Made an MP fixing a post-upgrade test which had been failing since forever.

autopkgtest-cloud

• Fixed some Python dependency issues, charms build again.

autopkgtest

• Preparing an SRU for Jammy and Noble

Misc

• Helping with release checklist for Plucky beta.
• Promotion application.
• Adding metrics for britney to the ubuntu metrics grafana board.
• Still trying to get quotas bumped for the porter-box environments.

[maxgmr]

Distro

• Raised first MP and request for sponsorship to fix FTBFS for ubertooth on Plucky

Other

• Work on “Rust development for Ubuntu” documentation
• In-depth study of the rustc and cargo packages

[vpa19771]

java-rockcraft-plugins:

• merged dependencies-export task but has not published the update yet (will do after we merge build rock export)

openjdk:

• investigated jtreg failures for openjdk-25. Raised https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8352567 (Java Flight recorder test crash due to unimplemented method).

chiselled-jre:

• published chiselled jre for openjdk-21

[hyask]

autopkgtest-cloud

• More integration and testing of PS7 on staging.
• Merged and carefully deployed the corresponding MP: https://code.launchpad.net/~hyask/autopkgtest-cloud/+git/autopkgtest-cloud/+merge/482623

auto-upgrade-testing

• Review for @uralt: Merge into main : var-crash-test-fix : lp:~uralt/auto-upgrade-testing-specifications : Git : Code : Auto Upgrade Testing Specifications

Merge-O-Matic

• Fix a weird mod_python PSP bug: ~hyask/merge-o-matic - [no description]
• And some more fixes/improvements:
  • ~hyask/merge-o-matic - [no description]
  • ~hyask/merge-o-matic - [no description]
  • ~hyask/merge-o-matic - [no description]

Error Tracker

• Properly commit and deploy the UI fix for AptSolverDump: ~daisy-pluckers/errors/trunk : revision 659
• Also prepared a whoopsie upload + FFe to allow this field: Merge into main : skia/aptsolverdump : lp:~hyask/whoopsie : Git : Code : Whoopsie

command not found extractor

• Investigated stalled locks and processes (months old), got it running again, and monitored the situation while it catches up since last October.

Plucky beta

• Reviewed a bunch of FFe:
  • Bug #2103504 “[FFe] KDE Frameworks 6.12.0 release into plucky” : Bugs : extra-cmake-modules package : Ubuntu
  • Bug #2103516 “[FFe] Plucky freeradius unrunnable radlast command...” : Bugs : Ubuntu
  • Bug #2088977 “[FFe] Enable DTrace in php8.4” : Bugs : php8.3 package : Ubuntu
• Some seed update: https://code.launchpad.net/~hyask/ubuntu-seeds/+git/ubuntu-seeds/+merge/483070
• Some metapackages updates:
  • Merge into ubuntu/devel : skia/refresh_plucky_beta : lp:~hyask/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta : Git : Code : kubuntu-meta package : Ubuntu
  • Merge into ubuntu/devel : skia/refresh_plucky_beta : lp:~hyask/ubuntu/+source/edubuntu-meta : Git : Code : edubuntu-meta package : Ubuntu
  • Merge into ubuntu/devel : skia/refresh_plucky_beta : lp:~hyask/ubuntu/+source/lubuntu-meta : Git : Code : lubuntu-meta package : Ubuntu
  • https://code.launchpad.net/~hyask/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-budgie-meta/+git/ubuntu-budgie-meta/+merge/483049
  • Merge into ubuntu/devel : skia/refresh_plucky_beta : lp:~hyask/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-mate-meta : Git : Code : ubuntu-mate-meta package : Ubuntu
  • Merge into ubuntu/devel : skia/refresh_plucky_beta : lp:~hyask/ubuntu/+source/ubuntustudio-meta : Git : Code : ubuntustudio-meta package : Ubuntu

misc

• Hiring

[rkratky]

Documentation

Docs Starter Pack

• Update conf parameters

Ubuntu Governance

• Update the Docs Started Pack to latest version